I’m tired, boss.
They are petty dead. I’m finding less and less time to post content to keep them active. But I’m trying.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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Take a break! They are not going anywhere, and it's good to be away for some time
Your football communities should pick up in the next month. I'm a sooner - think I'm going to take this year off.
If you have any programming skills, grab the pythorhead library for python (or something similar for a language you prefer), and slap together some code to automate at least some of the parts of regular posting.
And like the other guy said, breaks don't hurt. I stopped posting to !gameart@sopuli.xyz for a long while and it stopped growing, but once I felt like doing it again, it just resumed chugging along like before.
what community do you mod? Post a link and ill start posting there or advertise in on twitter or something.
A few niche ones.
- !miamihurricanes@fanaticus.social
- !jets@fanaticus.social
- !cfb@fanaticus.social
- !swflorida@lemmy.world
I also mod a couple with Blaze, which do have a good bit of discussion.
Oh hey, on fanaticus.social! I discovered that a little while ago and I am glad people are putting sports communities on the sports instance. I understand the importance of decentralization and that it is good to have several communities about the same thing on different servers, but I first found an MLB community somewhere totally elsewhere than the sports instance, so it pleases me to see someone using the sports instance for sports. I like the idea of interest category instances, like how programming has programming.dev and lots of communities that have to do with programming (such as different ones for different programming languages, for funny stuff, etc.).
I don't know much about the things your chosen communities are about, unfortunately, so sorry I cannot really help or post. Except…
A post on r/NFL that stuck with me was the one where they go through all the mascots and find out which teams have fewer fans than the thing they are named after, with count of fans guessed based off something like Facebook likes. Maybe I'll do something like that but for college football. I also remember a video on YouTube ranking some kind of team (forget what sport) by how much their mascot would weigh. Although that might be a bit high-effort for someone like me who doesn't have much interest in football. Now I'm thinking of that MLB post with the names of the MLB teams if they went by the name of the most common animal in their… region? home state? and spoiler alert it was all ants.
cool saving this message. I appreciate it...no sarcasm.
Thanks!
Invite still stands: become an ambassador at https://fediverser.network/communities/jets@nfl.community and you can get all different sources of material + invite other users from reddit to join you. :)
I know nothing about US football, but maybe it would easier to have a generic community for the whole sport rather than communities for each team?
Yeah, there is a generic college football community and NFL community, too. I mod the college football one.
Don't get down; the specific team ones will probably be difficult for a while but my whole existence on the CFB Reddit was really game threads. Off-season was hard as a I normally wouldn't comment much unless it was my specific team being talked about, and I'd be surprised if we even had every P4 team represented at this point. I'm hoping it turns into an opportunity to get into other team game threads and learn more about them, but I have season tickets to WVU so home games will be hard to keep up with in-thread.
Quite happy with the influx of new people, so busy with the usual communities (basically everything I posted on the !newcommunities@lemmy.world weekly thread)
Completed an update I've been working on for my posting tool for the anime art communities.
It can now suggest things for me to post, specifically prioritising communities in need of activity, preferring artists I like. So my "workflow" is now basically just going yay-or-nay on some posts each day, which then go into the queue. It also takes care of tracking reposts, as well cross-posting to other communities where relevant to promote cross-discovery.
And if I take a break, the posting keeps going until the queue is exhausted (sitting at 400 upcoming posts).
Still posting manually for !gameart@sopuli.xyz, slowly building to a second K of subs.
!dungeonmeshi@ani.social has kept growing past the end of the animes first season airing, and I still have tons to post between now and the second season airing.
I've some ideas bouncing around my head for new communities. I've been thinking of doing something like the Calvin and Hobbes community, but for the Moomins.
And it looks like !midriffmoe@ani.social will be my second community to hit 1K subs, soon. 🎉
It can now suggest things for me to post, specifically prioritising communities in need of activity, preferring artists I like. So my “workflow” is now basically just going yay-or-nay on some posts each day, which then go into the queue. It also takes care of tracking reposts, as well cross-posting to other communities where relevant to promote cross-discovery.
Very interesting!
I’ve been thinking of doing something like the Calvin and Hobbes community, but for the Moomins.
Neat idea! You're on a good instance for it. I believe the Moomins have strong ties to Finland, as does sopuli.xyz.
Well, yes. Tove Jansson was finnish. Though swedish-speaking.
I'm probably stretched too thin but I don't have any real expectations. When I'm active, they tend to be active. but nothing has taken on its own beyond a small group of Washington Capitals Hockey fans.
I've been trying to grow the lemmy.world/c/hardware over past 2 months. The lemmy.ml version of this instance has for more subs, but has relatively low activity considering their size.
I decided to start a new community because I am not ok with the management behind lemmy.ml (I have very good reasons for this).
So far, sub growth has been going ok, but it's mostly me posting, although comment engagements are decent.
That being said, this is not a niche topic.
I really wish that we stop creating/promoting communities on LW. It's just too much happening at one single place. I feel discouraged to participate in any nascent communities there.
There is also !hardware@hardware.watch , which has been inactive but I am expecting to start seeing more activity once more people start migrating through Fediverser. If you want to try it over there I'd gladly make you a mod, and could help you with new posts.
I feel you regarding making LW too big (when I first joined Lemmy, I didn't really get the relationship between different instances), but I've put in a lot of effort in !hardware@lemmy.world to switch.
Happy to crosspost to any more specialized communities in other instances (there tends to be a lot of news about tech hardware about different topics every day).
I’ve put in a lot of effort in !hardware@lemmy.world to switch.
This is a textbook example of the sunk-cost fallacy.
Don't worry about "wasted effort". That's in the past. It would be better to look forward and see the potential growth that can be had if we work together.
Happy to help with new initiatives.
I can post/crosspost monitor related to content to a new monitors community not on LW. LW has one, but it's dead (!monitors@lemmy.world).
I only post some of the relevant content to !hardware@lemmy.world, so it won't only be crossposts.
If someone wants to take the lead with on a new non-LW community, I can mod and occasionally post content (there is usually something new every few days).
Hit me up if anything.
Hello,
A bit late the the discussion, but I've been in your situation with !casualconversation@lemmy.world. I had put a lot of effort into growing it, but at the same time I really wanted to move it away from LW.
At some point I thought that it was enough. We created a thread to discuss with the community, explained them the reasons (the post is still pinned there if you want to have a look). We announced a day when the LW community would be locked, and activity would happen in the new community.
Transition has been smooth, people appreciated that we asked for their feedback, and that the process was clear and defined.
Maybe lemmy.zip could be an instance where you could move your community? They are very transparent on their administration, and always quick with updates.
If hardware is your thing, there is a whole instance for you at https://hardware.watch/communities. :)
I may consider opening a monitor-focused community at some point in the future.
Cheers!
There is !linuxhardware@programming.dev who got started recently, maybe you can help there?
Cheers! Will crosspost Linux hardware topics, they do come up somewhat regularly.
Taking it pretty passively. I get enough weird short* videos recommended to me that I share something to !nowhereelsetoshare@sh.itjust.works about once a week which is a good rate for casual growth.
But then I think of the less original ones that feel less like my own little project which I often forget. !vintageads@sh.itjust.works is doing pretty well mostly unattended. I've kind of neglected !soundfontcovers@sh.itjust.works
Recently made !theonion@sh.itjust.works too just in case the Midwest admin ever let's things get to their head.
I absolutely BLEW MY TOP, then apologised profusely on my community.
Which is all good, I suppose, but... my sub still needs another mod.
Hello,
I just went through your post, sorry to hear. I totally relate with getting upset at times when your community is not as successful as you would have thought.
Is there anything we can do to help? Do you think you need another mod?
Ack, sorry for the late reply, Blaze! :S
Is there anything we can do to help?
Appreciate. <3
I think I've made the critical adjustment necessary, which is to not push myself anymore, trying to make one post per day. It was very ambitious, and it seems to have grown our subscribers a lot over the months, but it's just too much for me with the low energy, aching hands & back, etc.
Other than that, I think my disillusionment with my community & Lemmy overall is fading a bit. Indeed, one has to keep adjusting one's expectations across life, mais non?
Do you think you need another mod?
Yes, there are three distinct positions available.
My current mod to me is like an old friend, life preserver, and provider of cool Moebius stuff, but his time is limited for this extra stuff.